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This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

Reculver is a popular little seaside town on the coast between the Thanet resorts and Herne Bay. There was once a Roman Saxon Shore Fort here.

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Sixty years after No 24920 was taken, the proliferation of the motor vehicle occupying the kerbs is noticeable.

Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.

Inside the church there is a marble memorial to the life of Colonel Richard Nicolls, who captured the Dutch Colonial city of New Amsterdam on behalf of the English Crown - and then renamed it New York

Lindale is close to the River Winster, the old Lancashire and Westmorland border. John Wilkinson, the ironmaster, is buried in the churchyard in an unmarked grave; it was his fifth burial.

Frith's photographer originally titled this as 'The Walk', which was the old Lyme name for the upper length of Marine Parade long into the 20th century.

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

The Welsh name for Bridgend is 'Yr Hen Bont'.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Small fish rejected by Icelanders were brought to Teignmouth in Pike Ward`s boat Elise. In 1900, 100 tons were brought in for local consumption.

The chemist's (left) became Holman, Ham & Company. Shop signs beyond the Three Cups Hotel include those of a Co-op store, the Tudor Cafe, and the Nook.

The three-storey Royal Lion Hotel (left) incorporates a Tudor building. King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, spent a night here during a teenage walking tour in September 1856.

Shops here have been kept by the same families for years, and they still have a reputation for quality and service.

In April 1956, Commander Lionel Crabb, Britain's finest frogman, disappeared whilst diving at Stokes Bay, Gosport. On 17 April, Mr Crabb had stayed overnight at the Sallyport Hotel in Old Portsmouth.

In 1811 the local boat builder at Salcombe completed the ketch 'Ceres' for Capt William Lewis of Bude for trading with north Spanish ports, though for much of 1813 and 1814 she was employed carrying

By 1899 we see that the old two-storey bay window of the Cock Inn has gone, to be replaced by a new shop front installed by Mr Fairburn, who had moved his chemist's and druggist's business

The Baptistry extends and projects to the south at the west end like a porch, and has two rounded angle buttresses with solid pinnacles.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Local collectors found themselves £100 short to complete the construction, so they turned to Trinity House, who donated the money on the understanding that the monument could be used as working lighthouse

The trustees of the turnpike pressured the Common Council into allowing them to widen the road here in 1767 by demolishing the southern part of the old hospital, truncating it to the present

However, all this changed with the coming of the railways.